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Gaddafi was a supervillian. Almost literally:
It also wasn't NATO who directly killed him. His own citizens did, and they weren't kind about how they did it.
NATO also wants stable oil reserves. Both these things can be true.
He certainly played up to the role, presumably for egotistical reasons, but most of it was sabre rattling bravado. He wasn't seen as a genuine threat by Western intelligence agencies.
Also, NATO didn't have to kill Gaddafi directly in order to be instrumental to his deposition. You only have to look at the history of US intervention in Latin America for many examples of how regime change can be carried out via proxies and rebel groups.
US involvement in South America has been brutal- we are responsible for terrorism, murdering innocent people to spread fear, creating civil wars...Societies were torn apart in ways they may never recover from. How can you consider this an option and publicly advocate for it? That's fucked up
Cause it's whataboutism, not cause it's wrong.
calling something whataboutism is such a cop-out. what has the user said that distracts from the greater debate?
Cause the USA could leave NATO tomorrow and the discussion of NATO vs Russia wouldn't change. So the USA is irrelevant in this conversation. Plus, those were USA/CIA actions, not NATO actions. And NATO isn't ruled by the USA, no matter how much some people around here like insisting.
the conversation had mentioned the US, western powers and derailed to an extent from the original post.
Yey USA tankies!